English abstract

The development of Internet during the Nineties and their application to all the scopes of the Information Science, the documentation and the archivist has supposed a radical change in the procedures of information dissemination. Although in Spain the archives that offer information through Internet are few, in other countries they are numerous and the type of information which they offer is varied. In order to analyze the type of information which they can offer the archives through Internet it has chosen a country that counts in line on an elevated number of archives and with a high degree of uniformity in the archivist work: Canada. The study is divided in two parts. In the first place the informative elements are analyzed on the content of the documents that are offered through Internet and the structure in which they appear, considering their adjustment to the used norms of description in Canada, the Rules for the Document Description of Archives. Secondly two specific projects of information dissemination through the network, the British Columbia Archival List Union and the Canadian Network of Archivist Information are described (CAIN/RCIA)

O'BRIEN, Jeff; HANSON, Stan. Basic RAD: an introduction to the preparation of fonds- and series- level description using the Rules for Archival Description. Saskatchewan: Saskatchewan Council of Archives, 1998.